Lynn stuart parramore biography

          Lynn Stuart Parramore is the author of Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and coeditor of The 99 Percent: How the Occupy.

          Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking..

          Fitbits for bosses

          Sensitive to Big Brother accusations, the biosurveillance industry is trying to keep testing and tool evaluations under the radar.

          Proponents of the technology pointto its potential to improve health conditions in the workplace and enhance public safety. Wouldn’t it be better, they argue, if nuclear power plant operators, airline pilots and oil rig operatives had their physical state closely monitored on the job?

          Young Americans nurtured in a digital world where their behavior is relentlessly collected and monitored by advertisers may shrug at an employer’s demands for a biosurveillance badge.

          LYNN PARRAMORE received her Ph.D.

        1. LYNN PARRAMORE received her Ph.D.
        2. Dr.
        3. Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
        4. I work with top progressive economists to bring their research to popular audiences and build bridges between the humanities and economics.
        5. Culture, economics, psychology.

          6. In a world of insecure employment, what choice do they have, anyway? Despite the revelations of alarming National Security Agency spying and increased government and corporate surveillance since 9/11, the young haven’t had much experience yet with what’s at stake for them personally.

          What could possibly go wrong?

          A lot: Surveillance has a way of dehumanizing workers. It p